Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
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 ·Future Nine Corpor..
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Re: In this day and age...
Actually your comparison isn't quite accurate.
Instead of a Model T, how about a honda civic versus a Cadillac Escalade.
Both can get me from point A to point B.
I have 30Mbps down/2Mbps up. I would like more upload but it works fine for me, for now. When there is a justification to do a full FTTH deployment, the cable companies are 3/4 of the way there, so they can just extend the fiber from the node to your house.
Verizon's FiOS product today isn't much different from cable at all. The speeds they are offering are well within what cable can offer and what is being offered in many markets.
Let me ask YOU the question - what do YOU need a fiber optic connection for? It's nice to have, but what do you need it for? |
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T1 Rocky
join:2002-11-15
Dallas, TX
 ·Time Warner Cable
| What do I need it for? Things that I haven't even imagined yet.
The point I'm trying to make is that companies are restricted in what they develop becuase it has to be compressed to fit down a 500 kbps connection.
If 80% of the homes in America had 80 Mbps connections can you imageine some of the apps that might be out there? Here's some ideas:
1. Multiple applications - today we use the internet for one thing at a time. Why not have it do 10 things?
2. The power company pings your house and knows immediately when your power is out.
2. Video chat instead of phone calls.
3. Virtually walk through a home on a real estate website.
4. Cyber malls.
Limitless possibilities. Things we don't even know to think about.
When the first computer was created in the 1950's I believe it was the magazine Popular Science said something to the affect of, "there will probably only be demand to build at most 4 computers in the world." |
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